Thousands Protest Chavez

I think people around the world are more anti-Bush more so than anti-American. How America in general is viewed is often tied to how people view our current president and their foreign policies.

 

To a large extent I will grant thats true, but there is a massive underestimation about the extent of anti-american feeling. I believe you are right to the extent that a the anti-american feeling is there permanently, but it breaks into open conflict from time to time, not because of which president you have, because all politicians are really there to mouth the view of the regime behind them, but due to the way in which the mouthpiece is told to say it. The more these people bullshit the more they lose the argument. The truth will crush a lie. It is because reality looks a lot different to what politicians in the USA describe ! They are liars and lies are always crushed

It is because the regime behond the politicians is aggressive, and ill informed, perhaps, but also their propoganda promises what they cannot give !

Dont fool yourself that antiamerican politics ebbs and flows it is always present and has been gaining strength since the early 1980's and their aggressive policies Especially in South America. The same too in Europe. People are sick of the bullshit that the USA thinks itself the leader of the world, it isnt, it is just bullshit and agression without any backbone

 

Just because someone is the enemy of my enemy doesn't make him a good person (maybe a useful ally, but still, it says nothing about their morality). Just because Chavez doesn't like Bush doesn't make him a moral leader. It's kindof like Stalin during WWII, he was the enemy of our enemy, but he was still a giant dickhead in his own right.
You people need to stop being so intellectually dishonest and admit that all governments are corrupt to some extent, and if they pretend to be capitalist or communist is a bagatelle.
Chavez is hurting free speech and squashing his opposition while making the country more dependent on the flighty price of oil... I know George Bush is also a giant dick, but that's pretty much irrelevant...
stop exusing the excesses of government because it lines up closer to your ideological agenda.

 

La-dee-da. Duh.

I don't think for a minute that there is any perfection in any government. The nature of the beast is to be a beast. No matter how smart or honorable or honest, no matter how good the intentions, hell, even if the leader is Christ-like, they STILL have to work with an evil world. And just like in, say, sound equipment for example, your system is only as good as the weakest link.

I simply find the clash of opposites - Bush versus Chavez - to be fascinating and educational. AND entertaining. And where Bush is pretty much a "rag", Chavez is a go getter and is not afraid to be different.

I have always been interested in politics. It's my form of soap opera I suppose. I just love watching Chavez make George dance, and look bad.
But I have grown SO INCREDIBLY TIRED of the governmental baggage forced upon me by the US government, that I researched the possibility of finding some other corner of the world to lay my head, and in that, of course, Chavez, and therefore Venezuela, caught my eye. I have spent nearly a year studying his political methods, I read the Venezuela news from both viewpoints at least twice a week. I find his ideas to be a refreshing change. I believe he must be quite excentric. Not always a bad thing. Some of the most sane people I have ever known were quite "different". The proof is in the pudding, and being as how I've always been one of the "outcasts" of society here, I find Chavez's concepts to be fascinating.

I'm not at all sure why people keep talking as if the revolution in Venezuela is over. I think it's just getting warmed up real well, and I am excited to see how things go. I may end up there yet, "American" or not. That is, as long as the "good old USA" does not attack them for being different and bomb the hell out of them for their oil...